Dan Long already has his headstone picked out ? a sleek slab of black granite with his name carved into it.

“Just have to carve the date of death, and I hope my son will do that,” said Long, who works alongside his son in the carving shop at Joseph L. Mathias Monuments, at the corner of Main and Center streets in Westminster.

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